Deepa Purohit is an award-winning playwright (The 2024 Hermitage Greenfield Prize for Theater for Mxx: The Dignity Project, The 2023 Laurents Hatcher Foundation Excellence in Playwriting Award). Her plays include Elyria: world premiere, Off-Broadway debut at The Atlantic Theater Company NYC (2023 Drama League Award Nominee for Outstanding Production of a Play), Mai & Maa (Atlantic Theater Company NYSCA 2022 commission), Crushed Earth: world premiere Audio Play, a People’s Light Theatre New Play Frontiers commission in partnership w/Vrialto and Theater Horizon (w/Sanjit De Silva, Bones (2017 Andrew Mellon Foundation Residency w/Ma-Yi Theater Co.), The In Between, Mxx/perience (2022-23 New Georges Audrey Residency) A Valentine (2016 Kilroys Honorable Mention), Have Sari Will Travel!, Flight, & Mothering. Deepa is a 2023 – 2030 New Dramatists Resident. She co-founded and ran Rising Circle Theater Collective & the RC INKtank Writers Lab (2000-2012). She's a Ma-Yi Theatre Co. Legacy Labbie. MFA in Playwriting: Brooklyn College. MPH: Columbia University. Deepa is currently adapting her play Elyria into a TV series.